NASA and Boeing leadership are adjusting the return to Earth of the Starliner Crew Flight Test spacecraft with agency astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from the International Space Station. The move off Wednesday, June 26, deconflicts Starliner’s undocking and landing from a series of planned International Space Station spacewalks while allowing mission teams time […]
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Recent Starliner Docked Activities
Starliner has completed 77 of the original 87 flight-test objectives, with the remaining 10 to occur between undocking and landing. Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are testing more capabilities of the Starliner spacecraft and contributing to International Space Station operations. The entire CFT team is taking advantage of the additional […]
Starliner Flight Day 7 Activities
Starliner crew supports on-orbit research while ISS crew prepares for spacewalk. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, spent June 12 focusing on lab maintenance and researching advanced biotechnology. Wilmore started his day checking cargo stowed in the Harmony module before replacing components in […]
NASA, Boeing Provide Update on Starliner Flight Test Readiness
NASA and Boeing completed a joint Crew Flight Test checkpoint review May 25 ahead of the first flight of Starliner with astronauts to the International Space Station. During the checkpoint, mission teams reviewed open work ahead of launch planned no earlier than July 21, including emerging issues that need a path to closure prior to […]